Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-08-12
IN TOWN AND OUT.

COrsets specially at WatSonS.
When will the cake weddings begin?
Barretts circus at Bismarck to morrow.
Go to H. H. Days, Bismarck, for Jew
elry, watches, repairing, etc.
There is going to be an immense crop
of millet this year in this neighborhoed.
We are informed that Mr.. Kcebler has
purchased and brought down a header.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldroff start for the
capital to-day. They II take in the circus.
i Mrs. G. D. Edick, of Burleigh county,
is visiting the family Of Mr.. Charles
Edick.
Attorney Armstrong goes to Bismarck
to-day. Says he won't go to the circus,
probably, (D (D (D
Mrs. Shields has in her garden cucum-
bers of the Snake" variety that are more
than two feet in length.
Will some Glencoe friend again poke
"Rustler'' beneath the fifth rib and wake
him up? He's too good to lose
r. l.. Durant & Co., wholesale and re-
tail booksellers and stationers wall pape,
and music dealers. Bismarck, Oak.
= Mr.. Nelson Chesley is reported very low
with fever--supposed TO be pneumonE,
at the residence of MIR. j. B. Brock.
There is money in the treasury of Will
transport school township to redeem town
ship orders (registereO Nos. 96, "a and 81.
Work on the new railroad Is progress
ing a little slowly of late, owing to the
fact that many Of the teamstcrs and teams
have gone home to harvest.
The RECORD has hanging up in the office
some fine ears of Rec corn from tho field
of Mr.. Henry Hodgkinsen. The whole
field will be ripe within ten days.
I Nothing has yet been heard of Van AL
len Long, the A., B. & N. w. sub
contractor who disappeared so mysteri-
ously some time ago, leaving Il number of
creditors behind.
The Misses Bessie McNiel and Lizzie
'Taipe, tive of Williamsport Township s
enterprising lady farmers, have been Wis
iting the Capital City this week. They
didn't Stay to see the circus.
Bushman s. Co., of Bismarck, have To-
Gated a railroad-supply store at Long
Lake (the old hoteD, and are prepared to
furnish Emmons County people with
groceries, ETC., at lowest cash prices.
That pleasant and popular gentleman,
Mr.. 0. Ii. Hammond, of Clayton Town
ship, was a visitor to the county scat yes.
terday. He was on his way to the Red
River country to work through harvest
and thrashlng.
Last week the RECORD made It's Win
chester correspondent say that "Mrs.
Cash and Annie Petrie made trip to the
county seat last week." 1t should have
read, "Mrs G. II. Bumstead and the
Misses Cash and Annie Petrie."
The school board met Saturday at the
county building. Treasurer Boutillier' s
books were examined by the board, and
the investigation showed that of the sew
eral thousand dollars which have passe
through his hands every cent is accounted
for.
The Williamsport Tin Band was out
doing the chari-vari act Monday night
There were all sorts of strange instru
ments in the procession, but the most mu
steal was the "tuba"--a tuba-six scant
ling scraped across the resined edge of 6
dry. goods box.
A large part of the wheat in this neigh
borhood has been cut. Several of the
young men of the vicinity have gone
down to the Aberdeen country to work
during harvest and thrashing. Those
whose names we have learned are L. H
Lilly, Billy Baxter, Ed Palmer and Will
Baker.
1t is hardly necessary to call the attcn.
ton of our citizens to the fact that the
drug firm of Dunn & Co., opposite the
Sheridan House, Bismarck, keeps on
hand at all times large stock of fresh
and pure drugs, which will be sold at the
lowest prices. Give the firm call and
be convinced Of the fact.
A lady who went up to see little (the
wee little) Mr.. Herrick the other day said
"He was just too sweet for anything. He
was dressed so neatly, with his hair
reached up on the center of his dear little
head. He's just lovely" Did she ex'
pect to find him ont in the millet-felG
driving a mowing.machlne. with hay seeG
in his hair, and smoking pipe?
Merchant Connor and Wash Hawkes.
each made trips during the week past tc
Bismarck, for repairs to Mr.. C.'s binder
1t would be great accommodation to ths
people of this county if extras for the va
rious machines were sent in early mex
season aad placed on sale in the differen
settlements or, at least, extras for those
mower and binder parts most likely tt
break or wear out
Banker Whitaker came down yester
day Oh visit to the region round abou
Billsport. The gentleman thinks tha
this is the finest country he ever saw
that the skies are brighter, the gras
greener and the crops better than any
where ON earth that on no other part o
the Lords feotstool are the girls a
lovely and the young men as manly; tha
the soil, the water and the lay of the LAM